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Worried that someone on my WPA2 network...
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Nov 21, 2006, 07:57 PM
 
Maybe a bit of paranoia, but my laptop has always had an internal IP of 10.0.1.3, and my imac with 10.0.1.2, with the Airport using 10.0.1.1. It has always been the same, as I do some file sharing between them and they are saved as Favorite Servers. However today I came home from work(I take my laptop with me), and reconnecting to my Airport base station, it gave me 10.0.1.51... I refreshed my DHCP lease but it gave it to me again. Is there anything to worry about here? Can I see all the computers connected to my airport in one place? 
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Nov 21, 2006, 08:31 PM
 
WakeOnLAN will list all the computers on your LAN (in addition to the wake up function). Works great with my PB 12 1.33 and OS 10.4.

BTW WPA2 is much stronger than WEP as long as you pick a secure passphrase.
     
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Nov 21, 2006, 09:28 PM
 
The password is WPA2 with a mixed up 30 digit password. Thanks for the link to the app. I will try it out.

Tried it out and only found my 2 computers & the base station... Still odd that the internal IP has been the same for almost 2 years and suddenly switched...
(Last edited by larrinski; Nov 21, 2006 at 09:55 PM. )
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Nov 22, 2006, 05:00 PM
 
Your passphrase is pretty good, but you can do better. Use as many as 63 characters to improve security. The only time there is ANY impact on performance from a long pasphrase is when the client first connects, and that impact is tiny, so splurge!

Here's a nice site for generating very random, very long strings of characters. Enjoy!
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